| Bjørvika Now!
Oslo is undergoing transformation and Bjørvika is at the heart of it. The city is turning towards the Fjord that it for so long turned it’s back on. To maintain the momentum that the initiative has created, Bjørvika needs to be made immediately accessible. This could be achieved through phasing a continual program of art and installation with the phased delivery of development and urban spaces. The Oslo fjord provides one of the most sublimely beautiful backdrops any city could hope for. With Bjørvika, the city now has a place from which to embrace it.
Vast harbourside areas - 4km in total - are being made available by the transfer of existing wharfage and the removal of large, over-designed road systems. This work makes way for 900,000 m2 of new development around 7 new urban spaces.
This proposal speculates on the social, architectural and spatial character of those spaces.
Through public art collaborations the impact of the 6-lane highway can be mitigated until its removal in 2012. Temporary reuse of existing buildings, containers and industrial architecture would offer low-cost accommodation to creative industries normally excluded from this part of Oslo.
2nd Prize Awarded (one of two prices) in Open International Competition
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